Earth Week Day Four: Seasonal Living

"Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables, they probably get jet-lagged, just like people." ~ Elizabeth Berry

Please join us as we celebrate local eats and local produce with our friends at Full Belly Farms. 4 lucky families will take home a free CSA box and one luck family will walk away with our first MdTL Family Recipe, Community Cookbook.

When you begin to eat the highest quality food that you can find, your entire being will awaken and sing. Children especially benefit from simple, vibrant, tasty and fresh foods; they smile more, sleep more, and clean their rooms frequently.

Prepare for Spring Now

Here's what we can grow in Marin this Spring:

Beans Beets Cantaloupe Carrots Collards

Cucumber Eggplant Herbs Kale Kohlrabi

Leek Sweet Corn Lettuce(Leaf) Mustard Greens Okra

Onions Parsley Parsnips Pumpkins(Apr - May) Rutabaga

Spinach Swiss Chard Peppers Radish Turnip

Squash(Summer) Squash(Winter) Tomatoes Watermelon

Get yourself some seeds and start sowing!

Alice Waters in Your Kitchen Every Night

As much as I love to cook, I know that I'm not alone when I say that: it can get a little challenging to come up with fast, tasty new recipes that keep the family eating complete goodness night after night after night.

Alice Waters, in yet another one of her glorious creations, has developed a site devoted to helping us all eat fresh, seasonal and 'at home' meals without the hassle of flipping through a cupboard full of recipe books.
Complete with menu, shopping list and game plan, htttp://www.notakeout.com is as close as you'll get to having Alice Waters in your kitchen every night.

You can subscribe to notakeout, and receive your Menu and Shopping List every weekday morning, Monday through Friday, via email or RSS. Alice chooses fresh seasonal foods, creatively combined to give you healthy meals in a reasonable amount of time.

A friendly family service for free.

A scrumptiously civilized gesture that this mother of two truly appreciates!